Comments on: Meet Sir Lawrence Bragg: the greatest Australian you’ve never heard ofhttp://www.crikey.com.au/2014/01/24/meet-sir-lawrence-bragg-the-greatest-australian-youve-never-heard-of/
now with extra sourceTue, 03 Mar 2015 18:05:12 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1By: Neil Robertsonhttp://www.crikey.com.au/2014/01/24/meet-sir-lawrence-bragg-the-greatest-australian-youve-never-heard-of/comment-page-1/#comment-267997
Neil RobertsonTue, 28 Jan 2014 05:51:53 +0000http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=421175#comment-267997One more error in this article - Watson and Crick proposed the double helix model based on Franklin's fibre diffraction pattern, not crystallography.One more error in this article - Watson and Crick proposed the double helix model based on Franklin’s fibre diffraction pattern, not crystallography.
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tonylMon, 27 Jan 2014 10:19:29 +0000http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=421175#comment-267939The Braggs' pioneering work in x-ray crystallography is included in the NSW Year 12 Physics syllabus. (Of course Max von Laue may feel slightly left out)The Braggs’ pioneering work in x-ray crystallography is included in the NSW Year 12 Physics syllabus. (Of course Max von Laue may feel slightly left out)
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John JenkinSun, 26 Jan 2014 06:37:24 +0000http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=421175#comment-267905I refer to the article "Meet Lawrence Bragg". I welcome it heartily and applaud its central message: that Lawrence Bragg is one of the very greatest of all Australians, that he is almost totally unrecognised here, and that it is time we got past Banjo Paterson and Don Bradman!
However, the article has a couple of important errors. Lawrence spent much time as a boy at the home and observatory of his grandfather, Sir Charles Todd, South Australia's Government Astronomer, Postmaster General, and builder of the Overland Telegraph Line, not at the Australian Astronomical Observatory. Lawrence's father, Sir William Bragg, left Adelaide for a professorship at Leeds, not Cambridge. And I believe Lawrence's work during WWI played a central part in the Allied victory; another Bragg story almost totally unknown. It is told, along with much else, in John Jenkin, "William and Lawrence Bragg, Father and Son" (Oxford: OUP, 2011pb).
John Jenkin, Carlton.I refer to the article “Meet Lawrence Bragg”. I welcome it heartily and applaud its central message: that Lawrence Bragg is one of the very greatest of all Australians, that he is almost totally unrecognised here, and that it is time we got past Banjo Paterson and Don Bradman!
However, the article has a couple of important errors. Lawrence spent much time as a boy at the home and observatory of his grandfather, Sir Charles Todd, South Australia’s Government Astronomer, Postmaster General, and builder of the Overland Telegraph Line, not at the Australian Astronomical Observatory. Lawrence’s father, Sir William Bragg, left Adelaide for a professorship at Leeds, not Cambridge. And I believe Lawrence’s work during WWI played a central part in the Allied victory; another Bragg story almost totally unknown. It is told, along with much else, in John Jenkin, “William and Lawrence Bragg, Father and Son” (Oxford: OUP, 2011pb).
John Jenkin, Carlton.
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J MSat, 25 Jan 2014 06:32:26 +0000http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=421175#comment-267882Yes, great to see Lawrence Bragg being recognised in 2014, the UNESCO International Year of Crystallography. You can find out more about Bragg here: http://theconversation.com/bragging-rights-celebrating-the-centenary-of-crystallography-7128
and a great tribute by his daughter Lady Patience Thomson http://www.ansto.gov.au/AboutANSTO/News/ACS013057
And about IYCr here www.iycr.orgYes, great to see Lawrence Bragg being recognised in 2014, the UNESCO International Year of Crystallography. You can find out more about Bragg here: http://theconversation.com/bragging-rights-celebrating-the-centenary-of-crystallography-7128
and a great tribute by his daughter Lady Patience Thomson http://www.ansto.gov.au/AboutANSTO/News/ACS013057
And about IYCr here http://www.iycr.org
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zut alorsFri, 24 Jan 2014 03:47:06 +0000http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=421175#comment-267772Good article, thanks.
There's also a SA state electorate called Bragg (in the general vicinity of Glenunga, Toorak Gardens & surrounds).Good article, thanks.

There’s also a SA state electorate called Bragg (in the general vicinity of Glenunga, Toorak Gardens & surrounds).

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CliffGFri, 24 Jan 2014 03:17:28 +0000http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=421175#comment-267761South Australians remember him. A number of sites at Adelaide University honour his name.South Australians remember him. A number of sites at Adelaide University honour his name.
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ShakespeareFri, 24 Jan 2014 02:49:24 +0000http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=421175#comment-267749lovely article, Cameron, but why on earth do you denegrate another great scientist by claiming that it was Watson and Crisk who identified DNA’s double-helix structure via X-ray crystallography? it was their colleague, Rosalind Frnklin, who conducted the crystallography and determined that DNA is a double helix. They then proposed a model of the arrangement of the amino acid bases, based on her work. Even Crick has acknowledged that they took her data without her permission and under-reported her contribution.
You owe an apology and a correction to you article.lovely article, Cameron, but why on earth do you denegrate another great scientist by claiming that it was Watson and Crisk who identified DNA’s double-helix structure via X-ray crystallography? it was their colleague, Rosalind Frnklin, who conducted the crystallography and determined that DNA is a double helix. They then proposed a model of the arrangement of the amino acid bases, based on her work. Even Crick has acknowledged that they took her data without her permission and under-reported her contribution.